But how many trips are 4 man on the 777? If all of them were, and they're not, but if they were then would that be 52/2 is how many crews are available that day? Plus if that 1 guy gets called out a 9 day trip then for the next 9 days one pilot is not available whereas a domestic trip the 1 pilot called out may only be gone today, or on a 2 day and so on. I think you can just throw people into the 88 because it's lower paying but I doubt the company readily lets people move into the higher paying positions until they absolutely have to. To me you've got to carry a lot of fat to properly staff the international categories because a snafu in manning for a day could lead to a grounded flight and a grounded return flight and all the passengers and freight that never went to where it was supposed to go.

Those categories are fatter imho but also limited to near ALV pay.

I've just got a hunch and given that DALPA guys seem to be against this as well, that trip parking eliminates seats.

I just think for every 1 trip a person picks up a 30 hour trip over the ALV+15 limit on a trip park then thats 3/7ths of a pilot not needed.

FWIW, I can see where this is a bigger deal on the international categories than domestic but it was on the domestic MD88 side listening to a Captain talk about his friend doing it gleefully on the 88 where I first learned about it.